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Libyan widows train as seamstresses to earn living in war-torn Benghazi
Dozens of widowed and divorced Libyan women are learning to eke out a living in the war-scarred port city of Benghazi by making clothes, with the help of a local charity. Benghazi was a battlefield from 2014 to 2017 when forces linked to a government ...
500,000 children in 'immediate danger' in Tripoli as fighting rages: UNICEF
Half a million children are in "immediate danger" in Libya's capital Tripoli due to fighting, the United Nations children's fund UNICEF said on Monday. Clashes that broke out between rival militias in late August had killed at least 115 people and wounded nearly 400 by ...
Tripoli clashes leave 115 dead, 383 wounded: health ministry
At least 115 people have been killed and 383 wounded in month-long clashes between rival factions in Tripoli, Libya's health ministry said on Sunday. The fighting pitted the Seventh Brigade, or Kaniyat, from Tarhouna, a town 65 km (45 miles) southeast of Tripoli, against the ...
Migrant rescue ship Aquarius was seeking a safe haven for 11 migrants it saved off Libya Thursday, after refusing to return them to the North African country, aid groups MSF and SOS Mediterranee said. The vessel moved in to save 10 men and an unaccompanied ...
Several armed men attacked the headquarters of the National Oil Corp. (NOC) in the Libyan capital Monday and several blasts could be heard, a witness said. Gunfire could be heard as a security force allied to the Tripoli-based government arrived at the landmark building located ...
U.S. blocks UNSC request for frigate's return to Libya migrant mission, is mum on why
The United States has blocked a request for the U.N. Security Council to allow a Libyan navy vessel's return home to combat migrant smuggling, documents obtained by AFP on Thursday showed. The El Hani frigate was taking on water when it was sent to Malta ...
Migrants and asylum-seekers rescued while trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe should not be sent back to Libya, where they risk "serious abuses," the U.N.'s human rights agency has warned. In an update to its official position on returns to Libya, the UNHCR warned ...
Facebook, Libya's main news source, said blocked in Tripoli and other cities as fighting rages
Facebook has been blocked in the Libyan capital of Tripoli and other cities, residents said on Monday as fighting between rival groups raged. Facebook is the main platform for news in Libya with officials, ministries and armed groups that effectively control the country posting statements ...
Even as the number of migrants and refugees crossing the Mediterranean to Europe has fallen sharply, the likelihood of dying during the dangerous voyage has risen significantly, the U.N. said Monday. Between January and July, more than 58,000 asylum seekers and migrants reached Europe's shores ...
Italy hard-liner Matteo Salvini resists pressure to let migrants disembark
Italian far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini on Wednesday resisted increasing pressure to allow 177 migrants who have been held on a coast guard ship in a Sicilian port for two days to disembark. A public backlash against the seaborne newcomers helped put Salvini and his ...
Italy allows its ship with 177 rescued migrants to dock, ends standoff with Malta
Italy will let its coast guard ship carrying 177 migrants it rescued five days ago dock in Sicily, ending a standoff with Malta, its transport minister said on Monday, though it was not clear when and if the migrants would be allowed to disembark. The ...
Libya condemns 45 militiamen to death for killings at 2011 demonstrations against Gadhafi
A Libyan court on Wednesday sentenced to death by firing squad 45 militiamen for killing demonstrators in Tripoli during the 2011 uprising against dictator Moammar Gadhafi, the justice ministry said. It was the highest number of death sentences passed by a Libyan court in a ...
